Days and Nights
| Days and Nights | |
|---|---|
 Theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | Christian Camargo |
| Produced by |
Barbara Romer Juliet Rylance |
| Written by | Christian Camargo |
| Starring |
Jean Reno Katie Holmes William Hurt Christian Camargo Cherry Jones Russell Means Michael Nyqvist Allison Janney Juliet Rylance Mark Rylance Ben Whishaw |
| Music by | Claire van Kampen |
| Cinematography | Steve Cosens |
| Edited by |
Ron Dulin Sarah Flack |
Production company |
Art Cine |
| Distributed by | IFC Films |
Release dates |
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Running time | 91 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $13,243 |
Days and Nights is a 2013 American drama film directed and written by Christian Camargo. The film is inspired by The Seagull by Anton Chekhov and set in rural New England in the 1980s.
Cast
- Jean Reno - Louis - Family doctor
- Katie Holmes - Alex - Daughter of Elizabeth
- William Hurt - Herb - Dying brother of Elizabeth
- Christian Camargo - Peter - Friend of Elizabeth
- Ben Whishaw - Eric - Artist - Son of Elizabeth
- Mark Rylance - Stephen - Ornithologist - Husband of Alex
- Michael Nyqvist - Johan - Caretaker
- Cherry Jones - Mary - Wife of Johan
- Juliet Rylance - Eva - Eric's muse
- Allison Janney - Elizabeth - Movie star
Reception
The film received overwhelming negative reviews and holds a 0% fresh rating at Rotten Tomatoes.[1]
Ken Rudolph recognized that the actors were splendid, but the film seemed trite, and pretentious.[2]
The film critic Thorsten Krüger considers that Camargo "has nothing to tell and nothing to say." [3] The film "intends to be profound, but offers too little to be interesting".
The cast, so packed with talent that Jean Reno and Cherry Jones barely register, is stuck with stagey dialogue. Juliet Rylance, in the Nina part, has a particularly hard time.[4]
The World Cinema Now Program reviewed the film as: "Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull has seen numerous iterations over the decades, but actor/director Christian Camargo (The Hurt Locker) is able to honor the darkness and depth of this Russian tragedy while relocating it to a Memorial Day weekend in rural New England and putting his own contemporary spin on the material. With a haunting score, lovely cinematography, and strong performances from a remarkable ensemble cast, we see a family come together then fracture apart over the course of one disastrous weekend."[5]
The New York Times commented that "“The Seagull,” with its depiction of fin de siècle ennui, has been hollowed out and trivialized. So little time is given to the subsidiary characters in “Days and Nights” that, at times, the movie barely makes sense. The avian symbol has been changed from a sea gull to a bald eagle. What remains is a cracked shell." [6]
References
- ↑ "Days and Nights".
- ↑ "Days and Nights (2014)".
- ↑ Krüger, Thorsten (7 July 2014). "Days and Nights".
- ↑ Nehme, Farran Smith (24 September 2014). "'Days and Nights' suffers from dialogue despite bevy of talent".
- ↑ Palm Springs International Film Festival
- ↑ "A Chekhovian Bird of a Different Feather". The New York Times. 26 September 2014.